The Fountain
An old Russian proverb that states: "you can make a turd look like a Faberence egg with a furrow on the back, lacquer, but if you lick it, it still takes a lard."
That is how I felt about the Fountain is a pretty thin film of light and its diffraction effects can anything good out of it.
The "plot" is about a man and a woman struggling to find togetherness in an infinite universe, traversing three time periods to do so. The line of false facts describes the space and some Mayans. You figure it out Hugh Jackman character cries (eight times, my count) during the film, shaming Wolterine in the process. Rachel Wesl’s character is supposed to be the girl who but reminds me of a girl once dated, so that didn’t飞。
Run time:96 minutes
Rating: R
The avant-garde folks will try to tell you that this film is high-minded and conceptual and doesn't need to be too serious, as usual are stupid. The *Fountain smacks* of a director who has recently fallen in love with a woman and wants to reconcile his feelings with a project so personal, complex and intelligent, that only Aaronfoksky himself can understand it. Meanwhile, the viewer has to sit there trying to find a way, which he's really just licking the egg. This movie is bland and pointless. And unlike other Aaronfokky films, there is no redeemingly sad ass" scene to save it.
Danny Solomon
two takes on the same film
Every now and then a movie comes along and reminds us that the medium is capable of more than just countershifts, computer graphics and half-assed TV spin-offs. Daren Anoniksy's The Fountain is one such movie.
One of the more abstract and visually astounding films in recent memory. The Foundation takes place in Inquission-era Spain, the present and inside something like a giant snow globe, floating over outer space.
The film's focus saves *The Fountain* from becoming a confusing, unrealized mess. No matter how epic or trippy the movie gets, how confusing the story becomes or how often Hugh Jackman cinches the camera, it is just
a man coming to grips with the fact that eventually he and everyone he knows will die.
Making a deeply personal movie about mortality is quite a feat and creating the film's amazing visual effects without the use of cameras getting the *Fountain* made at all is Anoroky's biggest accomplishment. The film was originally slated to begin production in 2002 with Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett in the lead roles. When Pitt left the film, he met a woman who differences the filmed Troy instead) production was shut down. Mr. Pitt missed out — just to run around in a toga
★★★★★ ALL RATINGS ARE OUT OF A POSSIBLE FIVE STARS. ★★★★★
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